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Getting DOS box "pingsender.exe" briefly upon exiting Nightly

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baltobernie2
baltobernie2

Is this a virus?

Is this a virus?

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hi, no this is a legitimate part of firefox used to submit telemetry data: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336360

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philipp
philipp
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hi, no this is a legitimate part of firefox used to submit telemetry data: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336360